6.5 does have a LINUX client…
From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT mitre DOT org]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007
12:15 PM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: Martin, Jonathan; Kevin Whittaker;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE
Backup question
There's no ESX server client - that said, I don't know
about 6.5 or what Symantec's road map might include in the VMWare space. VI3
does come with a solution, VCB (VMWare Consolidated Backup). That's probably
what he should be using to protect his ESX boxes. In a DR scenario, an ESX
server hosting, say, 15 guest machines, the only way to get them back is to
restore one host at a time.
Jeff Lightner wrote:
No – I think he is saying he has no
issues backing up the virtual machines on top of vmware. What he
wants to do is backup the underlying “real” machine so he can
restore vmware itself. (i.e. Backup what would be there if there were no
virtual machines setup yet.)
In that case there is no “C”
drive because vmware is Linux rather than Windows. You’d have
to have a client installed there. NetBackup comes with RedHat Linux
clients but I don’t know if there is a vmware client.
Ok... so
Host_1 --> Virtual Machine 1
Host_1 --> Virtual Machine 2
Host_1 --> Virtual Machine 3
Verify that Host_1 (in my example above)
is in DNS and make sure you specify host_1 in your policy with the C:.
I'd also make sure you exclude the directories with your virtual machines in
them. Forget about Virtual Machines, this is just a standard file level
backup of that server.
From: Kevin
Whittaker [mailto:Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007
11:32 AM
To: Martin, Jonathan; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE
Backup question
No.... That is not it.
I am backing up the virtual clients just fine,
using standard NetBackup procedures.
I want to backup the actual servers C
drive, not one of the VMWARE client's.
I believe I am just using the wrong
terminology.
It is not even getting connected, because
it keeps getting the 58 and 29 status codes on the backup.
Kevin
From: Martin,
Jonathan [mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007
11:30 AM
To: Kevin Whittaker; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE
Backup question
I'm not sure what the "core" is,
but if you are backing up the disk files or data that resides on the master /
host then you have to specify that host name in the policy. If you want
data on the virtual disks (not the virtual disks themselves) then you have to
install the NBU client on the virtual machine and use that host name.
Think of backing up virtual machines like
backing up cluster resources. If you want a resource the cluster (virtual
machine) has use the cluster (virtual machine) name. If you want the node
(host / master) info then use that hostname. As usual, make sure all
these names and IPs are in DNS, both forward and reverse.
-Jonathan
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On Behalf Of Kevin Whittaker
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007
11:17 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] VMWARE
Backup question
All,
Netbackup 5.1MP6
Ok, I am going to try and not sound too stupid about
this. I am new to backing up VMWARE and a little confused.
We have a Windows 2003 , running VMWARE Workstation 5.
Well, we loaded NetBackup client on the 2 VMWARE clients, also running Windows
2003, and they both backed up successfully.
We loaded the NetBackup client on the core area of the
server and keep getting a status code 58, for the first try and then a status
code 24 for the second try. I was told, as long as I am not backing up
the dsk files, I should be able to do a normal backup of the core area.
I have done all the normal troubleshooting for 58 & 24
status codes but nothing seems to work.
I can ping the master server from the core area and I can
also do a traceroute.
Anybody have any idea what I am missing?
Kevin Whittaker
Syniverse
Technologies
Systems
Engineer - UNIX Admin
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